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THE ORION PUBLISHING GROUP RIGHTS GUIDE 2015 jonathan shepherd 117 Puddings 117 STUDENT BEANS 118 Clean Eats: The Modern Student 118 AMY ZHANG, JULIE ZHANG 119 The Dumpling Sisters’ Chinese Cookbook 119 THE ORION PUBLISHING GROUP RIGHTS GUIDE 2015 CONTENTS Fiction 1 Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy 24 Non-Fiction 58 Illustrated Non-Fiction 93 Orion Rights Department Contact Details GENERAL ENQUIRIES Tel: + 44(0)20 3122 6444 www.orionbooks.co.uk [email protected] US RIGHTS Susan Howe – Group Rights and Digital Director Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6905 [email protected] Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] TRANSLATION RIGHTS Chinese (simplified and complex), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Scandinavian and Spanish language rights Krystyna Kujawinska – Foreign Rights Director Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6853 [email protected] Croatian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian and Slovenian language rights Jessica Purdue – Senior Rights Manager Direct line: + 44(0)20 3122 6838 [email protected] Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Russian and Turkish language rights Richard King – Rights Executive Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] TV AND FILM RIGHTS Richard King – Rights Executive Direct line: +44(0)20 3122 6886 [email protected] HIGHLIGHTS Thin Air by Michelle Paver page 18 Fairy Tales by Joanne M Harris page 35 Stranger of Tempest by Tom Lloyd page 40 Luna by Ian McDonald page 43 Conflicts Within by Michael Vakiotis page 88 Draw Your Way to a Younger Brain by Anastasia Catris page 94 Ping’s Pantry by Ping Coombes page 102 Ready, Steady, Glow by Madeleine Shaw page 116 Fiction 2 Fiction DIANA BRETHERICK iana Bretherick is an ex-criminal barrister and now a D lecturer in criminology and criminal law at Portsmouth University. After completing a Master’s degree in Creative Writing, she entered the Good Housekeeping Magazine’s first ever Novel Writing competition, along with seven thousand other applicants. She won with City of Devils, which was published in 2013 and selected for Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3: ‘A historical crime novel with real originality and narrative energy’ – BBC History Magazine dianebretherick.wordpress.com @ DianaBretherick The Devil’s Daughters Gripping historical crime from the author of City of Devils, perfect for fans of CJ Samson. 1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia’s fifteen-year- old cousin has vanished but, because of her lower-class status, the police are unwilling to investigate. As he embarks on his search for the missing girl, Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances of young women and rumours of a haunted abbey on the outskirts of the city. When the body of one of the girls turns up bearing evidence of a satanic ritual, Murray begins to slot together the pieces of the puzzle. But as two more bodies are discovered, Murray learns that his sister, Lucy, has unwittingly put herself in mortal danger. Now a desperate hunt begins to find both Lucy and Sofia’s young cousin before they become the next victims of a truly terrifying killer. Also by Diana Bretherick: City of Devils (2013) Orion | August 2015 | 320 pp | Ms available Rights: World Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple | Japan: Japan Uni | Korea: Imprima | Turkey: Anatolialit 3 Fiction MICHEL BUSSI ichel Bussi is the author of eight bestselling thrillers. In M2013 alone, his books sold half a million copies in his native France. He has won fifteen literary awards, making him one of France’s most prestigious crime authors. His novel After the Crash was a runaway bestseller in France, where it sold 700,000 copies; ‘a novel so extraordinary it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the first time’. The Sunday Times Black Waterlilies From the Bestselling author of After the Crash comes a thrilling intrigue about a murder that takes place in Monet’s garden The calm of Giverny has been disrupted – and not only by the tourists. A murderer is on the loose, and has claimed the life of Jérôme Morval, a man whose passion for art was matched only by his passion for women. At the heart of the mystery are three women: a painting prodigy, the seductive village schoolteacher and an old widow who lives in a tower. But what do they have to do with the discovery of Jérôme Morval’s corpse? And what is the connection to the mysterious Monet painting of black waterlilies? Also by Michel Bussi: After the Crash (2015) Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2016 | 448pp | Ms due January 2016 Rights: US Translation: Les Presses de la Cité 4 Fiction CHRISTIAN CAMERON hristian Cameron is one of Orion’s most accomplished and Cprolific writers of historical fiction. As a seasoned re-enactor, he totally immerses himself in the world he writes about in order to recreate the historical setting of his novels accurately and completely. Salamis The spectacular climactic novel in the acclaimed Long War series Arimnestos of Plataea has already lived through several lifetimes’ worth of adventure, from being a rich man’s slave in Ephesus to winning glory at the battle of Marathon against the might of the Persian Empire. But the gods – and the Persians – aren’t finished with him yet. As an experienced sea captain – his enemies might say pirate – he has a part to play in the final epic confrontation of the Long War between the Greeks and Persians, the Battle of Salamis. It is a battle where many debts of blood will be repaid, ancient grudges settled, fame won and treachery exposed. The Greeks must finally bury their differences and fight as one – for against them Xerxes, the Great King, has assembled the greatest fleet the world has ever known, his sworn purpose to brutally extinguish the flame of freedom and make every Greek his slave. Also by Christian Cameron: Tyrant series (2008–2013); The Long War series (2010–2015); God of War (2012); The Chivalry Series (2013–15) Orion | August 2015 | 336 pp Rights: World 5 Fiction MASON CROSS ason Cross has written a number of short stories, including M‘A Living’, which was shortlisted for the Quick Reads ‘Get Britain Reading’ Award, and his first novel, The Killing Season, was published in 2014 to great acclaim. masoncrossbooks.blogspot.com @MasonCrossBooks Winterlong The most exciting new voice in thrillers, Mason Cross – author of The Killing Season – returns with his gripping new thriller – a must-read for fans of Lee Child and James Patterson. It’s been many years since Carter Blake parted ways with top-secret government operation Winterlong. They brokered a deal at the time: he’d keep quiet about what they were doing, and in return he’d be left alone. But news that one of Blake’s old allies, a man who agreed the same deal, has been killed means only one thing: something has changed and Winterlong is ready to make its move – Blake’s former employers want to take him out of the equation. He’s been staying one step ahead of his past for years, but now Blake knows it’s about to catch up with him... ‘My kind of book’ Lee Child Also by Mason Cross: The Killing Season (2014), The Samaritan (2015) Orion | May 2016 | 384 pp | Ms due December 2015 Rights: World Agents: China / Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: Japan Uni | Korea: KCC | Turkey: Nurcihan Kesim Rights sold: Dutch: Luitingh | US: Pegasus 6 Fiction GRÉGOIRE DELACOURT orn in Valenciennes in 1960, Gregoire Delacourt works in Badvertising. L’Ecrivain de la Famille, his first novel, won several awards, including the Prix Marcel Pagnol and the Prix Rive Gauche. His breakthrough novel, The List of My Desires, sold over half a million copies in Delacourt’s native France, remaining in the Top Ten for eighteen months after publication and was sold in 27 territories. www.gregoiredelacourt.com We Only Saw Happiness From the author of Waterstones Book Club choice The List Of My Desires, comes a heart- breaking, heart-warming, hugely redemptive story about the value of a life. Antoine’s parents fell in love at first sight. But they quickly realised that true love means more than furtive glances. Married too young, and with three small children, Antoine’s withdrawn mother abandons the family when his sister dies, leaving him with only the tenderness he shares with his surviving sister. Then Antoine meets Natalie, the woman of his dreams. They have two children and Antoine thrives in his work for an insurance company. But soon Natalie drifts away from him, beginning an affair, and Antoine loses his job when he lets his heart overrule his head. Driven to despair, he does something unspeakable. Antoine’s journey to come to terms with the terrible thing he has done will take him across seas and continents, deep into his own heart and the hearts of others, as he is forced to question what a life is really worth. Also by Gregoire Delacourt: List of My Desires (2013), The First Thing You See (2015) Weidenfeld & Nicholson | August 2016 | 320pp | Ms available February 2016 Rights: US Translation: Editions JC Lattes 7 Fiction RJ ELLORY .J. Ellory is the critically acclaimed author of eleven previous Rnovels including the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize. www.rjellory.com @rjellory Kings of America An epic new novel that exposes the dark heart beneath the glamorous façade of 20th- century Hollywood – from the author of A Quiet Belief In Angels and Mockingbird Songs.